Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"To question is to participate in the ongoing creation of meaning"

"Harmony is achieved through understanding the unity beneath apparent diversity"

"The future of humanity depends on the evolution of its consciousness"

"Wisdom is the fruit of both experience and contemplation"

"Love multiplies and amplifies all good qualities within us"

"The universe tends toward increasing beauty and complexity"

"Truth cannot be possessed but only participated in"

"Education should cultivate both heart and mind equally"

"The present age is pregnant with unprecedented possibilities"

"Solitude is valuable only when it leads to deeper connection with others"

"We are all architects of the future through our choices today"

"The integration of science and faith is not impossible but necessary"

"Adventure is the natural state of a consciousness moving toward truth"

"Compassion grows from understanding the cosmic interconnection of all beings"

"The universe speaks to those who learn to listen with their whole being"

"Every moment offers the opportunity for spiritual advancement"

"The goal of evolution is conscious, loving union"

"Despair is the refusal to see the deeper patterns of meaning"

"We become more fully human as we transcend narrow self-interest"

"The universe is a continuous process of becoming, not a finished creation waiting for interpretation."

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience."

"The only real failure is the failure to adapt to the emerging future."

"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."

"Nothing in the universe can travel faster than light, nor can anything escape the pull of gravity. These forces shape all existence."

"To move forward, one must embrace the tension between what is and what might be."

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."

"Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived."

"The world's axis is shifting; consciousness itself is evolving toward greater complexity and unity."

"Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces."

"In the final analysis, the questions of why life exists, why we exist, are perhaps the wrong questions. Life is because it is."